Last night, in his final at-bat at Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter hit a bottom-of-the-ninth, game-winning single. Unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejNA_42RRA

More extensive video at mlb.com. Over at The New Yorker, Roger Angell also has a poignant recap of the game.

U.K. animation studio A Large Evil Corporation has produced a series of vinyl homages to their favorite entertainment characters and famous figures. Lots of people do this sort of thing, but I was struck by how uncannily accurate these were, even with all of the caricatured liberties that the studio took in their designs. I was also taken by their apparently extraordinarily high level of craftsmanship.

Their series for “The Cornetto Trilogy” is a kind of tour de force, and obviously a labor of love.

More at evilcorp.tv and also over at the company’s Facebook page.

SPD has a selection of covers from a brilliant art directorial run in the 1970s and 80s by Steve Phillips for Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management. The work is full of big, bold, high-concept, advertising-style imagery, all of which play on various tropes of print media. It’s the kind of stuff we probably won’t see commonly again.

See more at spd.org.

This is a beautiful video by Gavin Heffernan, made from several mesmerizing time-lapse shoots of the Los Angeles cityscape captured on Canon EOS 6D DSLR cameras.

As I watched it, marveling at its visual beauty, I was struck by its fantastic score, how quintessentially L.A. it seemed with its sounds of rushing traffic and echoes of helicopters criss-crossing overhead, and also how very Michael Mann-esque it seemed, too. It turns out the music was lifted from Elliot Goldenthal’s score for Mann’s L.A. 1995 opus, “Heat.” It sounds just as vital today as it did nineteen years ago.

The blog Pulp Covers claims to bring you “the best of the worst” in lurid, sensationalistic, illustrated covers from the 20th Century tradition of cheap pulp novels. As a gallery of antiquated titillation, it’s entertaining enough. But sprinkled throughout the site’s many specimens are examples of the original illustrations for the covers, before they became adorned with loud, histrionic type treatments. The fact that they were composed to account for the space those type treatments would require means that, in their raw state they are imbued with a surprising quietness, even a kind of unexpected thoughtfulness. I find them fascinating. Here are some examples.

See more at pulpcovers.com.

This article surveys the current landscape of tools available for prototyping mobile app design, as seen through the eyes of Pauly Ting of Tigerspike and Stephen Meszaros—who just happens to be my colleague at Wildcard. The two talk about their approach to the array of continually changing but still imperfect options for prototyping interfaces that can be found on the market today. This article also happens to provide one of the first public looks at the work that we’re doing at Wildcard:

That’s a sneak peek at a version of our forthcoming app, taken from a prototype that we built in our exploration of various animation behaviors. Steve talks about that process, and shows this interface in animated form, in the article.

This is making the rounds, but I think it’s important to be sure everyone in the tech industry sees it. Filmmaker Casey Neistat spent 24 hours visiting the various lines for the new iPhone in New York City. What he saw were, apparently, low-income immigrants who speak English as a second language, enduring the long wait in line in order to sell the iPhones they buy (paid for in cash) to unidentified gray-market buyers who meet them a few blocks away. Also included, footage of NYPD conduct in policing the line. It’s a sad commentary on the seamy underbelly of Apple’s success.

A 30 Sep item from The New York Times’ City Room blog reveals the origins of the Yankees’ world famous logo:

It was designed by Tiffany & Co. as part of a silver shield-shaped Medal of Valor depicting a woman placing a laurel wreath on a policeman’s head. It also contained the by-now-familiar interlocking letters ‘NY.’ The medal was given to John McDowell, a New York police officer shot in the line of duty, in 1877, one year after the National League was formed.

I did not know that. City Room displayed a fairly small photograph of the medal, but a Google search revealed this larger one:

Anyway, things to keep Yankees fans entertained as a disappointing season draws to a close.

If you have one or more of Apple’s handy but easily lost MagSafe 2 adapters that allow older Apple laptop power supplies to work with modern MacBooks, then you’ll appreciate the MagCozy—a clever little silicone tether that prevents the adapter from getting lost. When I first came across this product online I filed it away in the back of my brain, but since I use several MagSafe 2-adapted older power supplies at home and at work, I kept finding myself wishing I owned a few MagCozies. A couple of weeks ago I finally got a hold of some and they’re terrific—highly recommended. Find out more at cozy-industries.com.